Jenise wrote:Paid $6/lb for beautiful locally-grown heirlooms in the Canadian Islands over the weekend, including some late varieties like green zebras. Funny, the Island I was on was only about 20 miles west of where I live and at about the same latitude, but we're not even close to getting tomatoes.

Do you suppose they are grown under row covers? I know that several of our growers here, especially if they are in the foothills, use row covers.

Could well be for that all-important early start.

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

Picked my first tomato today. Smallish, got a couple of spots on it that'll have to be excised, but By Dad!, it's My First Tomato this year. Were I to allocate the entire bush and water and so forth against this one tomato, it'd be something like $40/lb. However, there are tomatoes and blossoms aplenty on the bush.